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...Army. Wooldridge, who became the first noncom to hold the new rank of Sergeant Major of the Army (the Marines have had a comparable corps-wide post since 1957) will serve in effect as the G.I.'s generalissimo. Acting as both the soldier's man-in-the-Pen-tagon and the Chief of Staff's trouble-shooter within the ranks, the burly (6 ft. 190 lbs.), heavy-jawed infantry veteran will thus represent the entire Army, much as its 4,700 lesser sergeants major* represent units ranging from battalions to field armies. Said General Johnson: "He will...
Dick Goodwin, of Boston, Tufts, and Harvard Law School, was one of President Kennedy's young brain-stormers. Not yet 30, reputed to be as eloquent as the peerless Ted Sorensen but faster with his ghostwriting pen, he turned out the basic draft of J.F.K.'s famed Alliance for Progress speech. Later, L.B.J. tapped him for help in composing the even more famed Great Society address...
...commonfolk and the commonness of nobility from beneath wrinkles and warts. Dela croix used his works as models for copy ing. In admiration, Novelist Honoré de Balzac said of him: "That fellow has Michelangelo under his skin." Yet the world's most famous satirist with brush and pen cost his country 12 francs in 1879 to be put into a pauper's grave...
...scene was worthy of Daumier's pen. Discreetly dressed bourgeois bid ders hid all signs of buying fever, ex cept for a lady who offered $1,600 for a charcoal drawing, Buffoon and His Monkey, in a Landscape, then protested that she did not mean to get that one. The auctioneer rebuked her: "Madame, that's impossible. You've been bidding for five minutes and the object is right in front of you. I regret it, but it's yours...
ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Suicide ended the promising career of Poet Sylvia Plath in 1963. In these poems written during her last months, she dipped her pen in old wounds and secret bile and scribbled a volume of violent verse that constitutes a major contribution to the poetry of abreaction...